install packages from source code in Arch/Manjaro

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The general process for installing software that isn’t in the AUR is as follows:

1. download the tarball file containing the PKGBUILD file
2. expand/extract the tarball file
3. run makepkg in the folder containing the PKGBUILD script
4. install the .xz file that is produced

Step 2: To expand the tarball, do the follwing in a terminal. You need to cd to the directory where the tarball is located first:

    tar zxvf mypackage.tar.gz

step 3 + step 4: To run makepkg you need to cd to the directory where the PKGBUILD script is located first and then run the following command:

    makepkg -csir

The above command builds the package using makepkg and then installs the resulting .xz file

To uninstall software that was installed from source code using tarballs, enter the source directory of your package and then type:

    make uninstall